BRITISH BIRDS. 293 
THE PINTADO. 
GUINEA HEN, OR PEARLED HEN. 
( Numidia Meleagris , Lin . — La Pintade , Buff.) 
This bird is fomewhat larger than the common 
Hen : Its head is bare of feathers, and covered 
with a naked {kin, of a blueifh colour ; on the top 
is a callous protuberance, of a conical form ; at 
the bafe of the upper bill, on each fide, there hangs 
a loofe wattle, which in the female is red, and in 
the male of a blueifh colour ; the upper part of the 
neck is almoft naked, being very thinly furnifhed 
with a few ftraggling hairy feathers ; the fkin is 
of a light afli colour; the lower part of the neck 
is covered with feathers of a purple hue ; the ge- 
neral colour of the plumage is a dark blueilh grey, 
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